Women are more likely to work soon after graduating college

Women are more likely than men to go straight into work than to continue studying after getting degrees.

In its survey of graduating classes of 2015, the Higher Education Authority found that 62% of those who got an honours (level 8) degree from university had jobs by the following spring. This compares very favourably with the corresponding 48% figure for 2010 graduates.

In 2010, 41% of level 8 university graduates had gone on to further studies or training, but that figure has dropped to 31%.